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A piece of Springs history comes home

This label inside the cover of a copy of Les Miserables identified the book as property of Gen. William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs. Historian Leah Davis Witherow identified the handwriting as Palmer's. Photo by Courtesy Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

A Wisconsin woman bought this copy of Les Miserables from a library for $3 in 2008 and recently discovered it was from the private library of Gen. William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs. She is donating the book to the Pioneers Museum. Photo by Courtesy Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

A Wisconsin woman bought this copy of Les Miserables from a library for $3 in 2008 and recently discovered it was from the private library of Gen. William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs. She is donating the book to the Pioneers Museum. Photo by Courtesy Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum